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Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey,
Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams and launched in
July of 2006. The service rapidly gained worldwide
popularity.
In 2012, more than 100 million users posted 340
million tweets a day, and the service handled an average of
1.6 billion search queries per day.
In 2013, it was one of the ten most-visited websites
and has been described as "the SMS of the Internet"
As of 2016, Twitter had more than 319 million
monthly active users.
On the day of the 2016 U.S. presidential election,
Twitter proved to be the largest source of breaking news,
with 40 million election-related tweets sent by 10 p.m.
(Eastern Time) that day.
- Information source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter

3. TWITTER STATISTICS & DEMOGRAPHICS

a. Statistics
·Total Number of Monthly Active Twitter Users:
326 million
·Total Number of Tweets sent per Day:
500 million (5,787 tweets per second)
·Percentage of Twitter users on Mobile:
80%
·Number of Twitter Daily Active Users:
100 million

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